GWU Greeks Make Asses Of Themselves When They Completely Jack Their Skit From DG At Chapman…And Get Caught

Airband (or Greek Sing, or Lip Sync, or Skit, or what-the-fuck-ever you call it on your campus) was absolutely the highlight of my year at school. I’ve seen countless skits of girls in black leggings and t-shirts doing silly dances to top 40s hits, and that, I’m sure, is fun. But at my school, like some others, it was truly a production. We had a group recreate Jumanji with a 12-foot tall electronic, moveable game board. Each time the girls “rolled the dice” before a dance, the pieces on the board moved the appropriate number of spaces. We had a sorority with a circus theme create moving freak show cages for the members to crawl out of. And my sorority (because of course, I’m going to brag) blacked out the stage midway through a performance one year, while the dancers, in all black, lit up like robots, leaving the audience staring at dancing lights.

It was incredible to watch, but mostly, it was incredible to sit back and think “We’re just a bunch of drunk kids trying to avoid class, but when we put our minds to it, we can put together something as amazing as this.”

Chapman is one of those schools — one of those schools where the Greek performances are simply mind-blowing. DG put together an amazing rendition of “The Wizard of Oz” in April. The girls won first place. Then, just months later, KD, SAE and Beta at George Washington totally jacked their routine…and not to mention, made asses of themselves.

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What the girls in charge of the dance routine did was terrible (come on people, haven’t you learned your lesson from Bring it on? Stop being assholes and thinking you can get away from it) and they should be punished, hopefully by the judges of their competition and also their standards board. But to blame the whole chapter, and especially the entire GW Greek community is just silly. My brother goes to GW and I know their community does amazing things, especially the brothers of Sigma Chi with their Derby Days. Also, I do not agree with the way you, hot piece, or Chapman dealt with this. This was just completely mean spirited and catty, not at all what sorority girls should act like. Where is the greek support? By publishing this piece, and by them making their video, you just swooped to the level of the girls who ripped off the choreography. There were other ways that this could be dealt with because I do agree that what they did was terrible, but public slander is by far the lowest and ugliest way you could have dealt with it. Shame on you and on Chapman!

It was wrong of them to completely rip off the choreography, but saying that their version is bad is rude. I don’t know anything about GWU’s Greek life, but I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt. Some schools may not take this competition so seriously. The chapter might have a lack of dancers. Maybe they have a lower budget for costumes. They also might not be allowed to have props (like my university’s sing-off).
I understand why they’re mad, but making a video was unnecessary.

this is exactly what is wrong with GWU. there is no creativity, no originality, and no real skill among students or within the school / institution itself. its not even worth trying to change anything there because students actually believe that what they are doing is great and awesome and feel confident about themselves. sorry for this school and these students.

As someone who goes to GW, I think what this group was totally unfair to Chapman’s DG and was plagiarism and cheating. However, I also think it’s naïve and ridiculous to take this article and then make the statement that “this is exactly what is wrong with GWU. there is no creativity, no originality, and no real skill among students”. I choregraphed my team’s skit and we did really well and I’m proud of them and myself. Think a little harder next time before you speak.